"It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people"

"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing"

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles"

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing"

"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy"